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United Arab Emirates: GPC Helps to 'Re-Address' the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, Improve Ambulance Response Time

The Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA), under the direction of the General Secretariat for the Executive Council (GSEC), and in partnership with Abu Dhabi, Al Ain and Western Region Municipalities, is undertaking the recently initiated Abu Dhabi Emirate Street Addressing, GeoNames and Signage System (ADAGS) project.
Improving ambulance response time, reducing carbon footprint, effectively being able to monitor disease epidemics, and enabling economic growth through the online consumer are but a few examples of the possible impact an improved addressing system can have.

United Arab Emirates: Dubai Ambulance: Life Support Should be Taught Young

Dubai: Pupils aged 12 and above should be taught basic life support and emergency response, said a senior manager from the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services (DCAS) during a first aid workshop at a Dubai school.
The understanding behind the early learning is to equip youngsters with the necessary skills to save lives, and eventually reduce the pressure on the health care system, said Mesha’al Abdul Karim Julfar, Training Manager at DCAS.
On Thursday, almost a hundred pupils from the Al Mawakeb School in Al Garhoud learnt how to recognise the signs of various emergencies and respond quickly and appropriately.

United Arab Emirates: Dubai: CPR to Be Child's Play

Dubai: Time will come when even schoolchildren in Dubai will know how to go about cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with the aid of a pocket-sized gadget equipped with the latest technology.
This is so as the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) has partnered with a leading private company provider of medical equipment in the Middle East, in training all the medical staff of the 186 private and public schools in the emirate on the precise usage of the device.
DHA has purchased the CPR devices, which will be distributed free of cost among all the 156 private and 30 public schools, whose nurses and doctors are to be trained by the gadget provider,

United Arab Emirates: Ambulance Service Launches Life Saving Telemetry System

Doha: The Ambulance Service today launched a new telemetry service, allowing paramedic crews responding to an emergency involving a suspected heart attack, to transmit vital information from the scene.
The telemetry service, currently fitted to 60 ambulances in the fleet, allows paramedic crews to record and transmit the patient's Electrocardiograph (ECG) from the scene to the clinical team leader in the National Control Centre (NCC).
The clinical team leader then makes an informed decision as to whether the patient should be transported to the Heart Hospital or to Hamad General Hospital. If the patient is being transferred to the Heart Hos

United Arab Emirates: BMW Showcases Emergency Service Vehicles

Dubai may currently be stealing the limelight when it comes to attention-grabbing emergency vehicles, but in truth they are more about generating publicity for the Emirate than real world, hum-drum policing activity.
Elsewhere, relatively exotic machinery actually has to perform critical emergency service roles and BMW will be showcasing its range of purpose-built emergency vehicles at the RETTmobiltrade show in Fulda, Germany later this month.
The Bavarian car maker will be exhibiting a total of seven different models – a BMW X6 M50d designed as a medical car for the racetrack; a BMW X3 as a fire brigade command; a BMW X1 &ldquo